Former U.s. Rep. Bob Beauprez at a gubernatorial debate in April. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

A pair of radio interviews Colorado gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez gave over the Fourth of July weekend drew reaction Monday from a liberal Washington immigration reform group quoting Colorado Latino leaders.

Beauprez, the Republican nominee, complimented Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on the radio and said he would show similar leadership on immigration at the state level in Colorado, if he’s elected.

“Governors on behalf of their states are going to have to be very vocal, very strong, and push back on D.C.,” Beauprez told 850 KOA host Doug Kellet.

Beauprez said that governors have to push back against federal immigration efforts.

“If they won’t do it, governors ought to be allowed to do it, as Jan Brewer tried to do in Arizona,” he said.

Arizona passed a law in 2010 that gave police the authority to detain anyone who wasn’t carrying documentation to prove his or her citizenship. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the law two years later.

Beauprez said that if the federal government sent buses carrying immigrants from overwhelmed Texas detention facilities to Pueblo, he’s heard from people who said “they’re going to be in the streets to block them.”

America’s Voice in a statement Monday compared Beauprez to Tom Tancredo, the former congressman, presidential and two-time Colorado gubernatorial candidate who is a nationally known firebrand on immigration issues. The organization also released statements from several Colorado Latino leaders condemning Beauprez, but other Latino leaders defended the Republican nominee.

“I thought we had moved past this kind of sentiment in Colorado,” state Rep. Crisanta Duran, a Democrat who represents northwest Denver. “What Beauprez is so casually suggesting is that people across our state be stopped by police based on the way they look or talk.

“That’s not the kind of state I want to live in and I suggest Beauprez think twice about promoting such a divisive law in a state that values people from different backgrounds.”

“Barack Obama has failed to secure our border and enforce immigration laws that protect our nation,” Beauprez said Monday. “As governor, when the federal government fails to do its job, I’ll stand up for Colorado. voters are tired of weak politicians like John Hickenlooper who can’t lead and don’t put Coloradans first.”

In remarks released by Beauprez’s campaign. Greg Lopez, the former Colorado district director for the Small Business Administration, said he interpreted Beauprez’s remarks as meaning governors should work together “to get the federal government to do its job,” and that it was ridiculous to conflate that into “inflammatory anti-immigrant language.”

“I, and many other Latinos, find it insulting to suggest that common-sense approaches to immigration, calling for federal officials to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, and placing a priority on our nation’s security somehow translates into being ‘anti-Hispanic,’ he stated. “Colorado’s Hispanic community has a great deal of respect for the law, and many of us are just as frustrated as anyone by the tragic lack of federal and state leadership.”

“It is time to stop with the hyperbole and start dealing with the real issue at hand, the fact that this administration, at all levels, refuses to enforce current laws, while blaming Republicans for not acting on reforming the current immigration laws,” Chaves-Rey said. “In fact, it is the Democrats who don’t want reform, because they fear losing some votes.”

Last year, the Democrat-controlled Colorado legislature repealed the strict immigration law passed in 2006, including the requirement to alert federal immigration officials of arrests when officers suspected someone was an undocumented immigrant.

The Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police urged lawmakers to do away with the requirement, and Fox News reported, “Some see the law as a precursor to more controversial policies later adopted in Arizona and Alabama.”

Alabama’s 2011 law, giving police the power to detain those suspected of being illegal immigrants, was struck down last year by a federal appeals court , that stated federal law preempted the state’s right to regulate illegal immigration.

State Sen.Jessie Ulibarri, a Democrat from Adams County, said Beauprez was “stuck in the past.”

“Maybe he didn’t notice that in the last eight years Colorado’s police chiefs and sheriffs have rejected Arizona-style legislation because they know how important it is to build trust with the immigrant community across the state,” Ulibarri stated. “Does he really want to restart the ‘show me your papers’ debate where any Colorado resident who might look like an immigrant is subject to being stopped by police? Why is he trying so hard to divide Colorado?”

Hispanic American citizens have been in Colorado since long before statehood, and I often hear them condemning illegal immigration on the Western Slope where I live. American citizens with Spanish looks who are severely insulted when mistaken for illegals in public situations … Can you blame them?

aaroncarlson35

Kick those out too!

Ben Cook

Huge difference between Mexican and Spanish. Not the same!

oldcap

So it’s nice to see that at least one xenophobe finally does admit that it’s all abut race and color.
I DO hope you cane find it in your heart to love your little brown grandchildren.
Within 50 years, the USA will be a brown nation.

SkyCapn

Well, since brown is the color of s**t, pretty much makes the US under Bammy a brown nation already.

aaroncarlson35

And the same shit hole as Mexico? Tell me, why are they all coming here?

Anotha Texan

Oh blah blah.
Same old Marxist gobbledegoop.

Steven Alvarado

No, Mexicans are descended from Europeans and First nation people. Mestizo means mixed.

Ben Cook

Mexico is an Aztec word, not a Spanish one. The American-native-born Hispanics and the new arrival Latinos from Mexico, Central and South America do not see themselves as one and for the most part do not like each other, they are not a homogeneous group – that is the mistake most well meaning liberals do not understand when they try to lump them all together when they are trying to score points with “voters”

windbourne

Even better, would be if Beuprez and others, including latino leaders, would push to have a COMPROMISE solution on this.
We need a solution.

a420bowlkilla

No one want’s a solution, then they wouldn’t be able to use the issue for politics…..THINK ABOUT IT……/sarcasm

aaroncarlson35

You mean compromise using Pricktator Obama’s definition?
The only solution is deportation. Or a third grade English and math exam. if they can’t pass it they are not from here! Easy.
These sleaze bags are sucking of the tits of liberal losers in Washington catering to them!

a420bowlkilla

Reagan sure was a ‘liberal’, wasn’t he.

aaroncarlson35

Oh God, blame the past president symdrome!

a420bowlkilla

LoL

OH GOD! the original post was deleted….

gofastgo

Reagan said ‘never again’ when he gave amnesty to 8 million a short 30 years ago, and here we are faced again with another 12 to 15 million illegals in America. Throw them out now.

blockmccloud

They aren’t illegals. They are HUMAN BEINGS.

gofastgo

Okay, you’re confusing human rights with nations laws. I, and no one else said, ‘they’re not HUMAN’ We said and continue to say’ enforce our laws at the border’ America has laws that Holder and this administration aren’t enforcing and in fact, sued Arizona for trying to do their job by enforcing immigration and border security. Are you for bringing all the starving natives in Africa here too? Where will they live? What will they do differently here than they do in Africa? There are many much more desperate situations in this world than Mexico and Central America problems, we are not the worlds port in a storm.

Anotha Texan

They are felons who commit identity theft.

garmet

Obviously, Obama, et al doesn’t see them as human beings, or else he would do everything to prevent children, especially, from trekking across dangerous lands with dangerous people and being subjected to rape, robbery, disease, etc. to enter a country illegally where safety is not certain. It is inhumane for the Obama administration to allow this illegal flow of people, especially when it could be abruptly stopped.

http://batman-news.com less free

So is every other person on the planet. So whats your point. They ARE ILLEGAls.

Ben Cook

Let them go be HUMAN BEINGS in their own COUNTRY!

Anotha Texan

Try 30-45 mil and you might be close.

a420bowlkilla

Nah….

Ben Cook

The solution is enforcement

garmet

True; enforcement and a closed border is the solution,
but Obama wants $3.7 billion, and pretends that it will solve the border problem. He either doesn’t understand, or doesn’t acknowledge, that when there’s a gushing leak, like the illegals streaming across the border, you fix it by turning off the flow; not by elongating the problem and ineffectively dabbing an enormous amount of money here and there; wasting it.

Anotha Texan

Obama want’s 4 billion for welfare, not border enforcement.

Anotha Texan

The solution is men standing on the border with loaded weapons and orders to use them.

SkyCapn

F**king A!

jgd777

Where is the compromise between trying to find a solution while the illegal aliens continue to flow across the border and working on a solution “after” we stop that flow?

oldcap

Simple solution.
Put that fence on the Northern border of Tejas.

jgd777

You seem to be the one bringing race into this discussion far more than others. always with the brown vs white. Last I checked this discussion was about illegal aliens, individuals of all races and nationalities who are entering and remaining in the country illegally. Please stay on topic

oldcap

Please don’t pretend that this is NOT about race.
If the people coming to our country were Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, they would be welcomed with brass bands and parades in their honor.

jgd777

The opposition to Irish immigrants after the potato famine, the Vietnamese after the war, and the Cubans after Castro’s take over of Cuba wasn’t about race, it was about a huge influx of one group from one area of world. It just happens that currently that huge influx is from Mexico, Central and South America. We currently have more “illegal” aliens from this part of the world than the ones who entered through Ellis Island.
This is about individuals entering illegally who are possibly terrorists, gang members, drug dealers, carrying diseases long eradicated from this nation among other issues. This is about our federal government not taking their duties and responsibilities seriously enough to protect US citizens.
Get off this race baiting and stick to the issues

RE Hafner

And what invasion are the illegals from South of the border fleeing?

gofastgo

Enforcement of existing laws, not court dates without penalty for those who don’t show up, DEPORTATION NOW.

http://batman-news.com less free

There was a comprimise. Secure the border first. Doesn’t appear secure at all. Obama’s own policies killed hopes of any reform.

GenePH

Beauprez’s comments on immigration are refreshing.

disqus_an29jYPkvn

Indeed they are, & even Hickenlooper has commented that the proposal to bus the current batch of illegals to Pueblo would be a bad choice, given the vocal resistance shown by Pueblo’s population, many of whom are of Hispanic ancestry.

blockmccloud

and 100% wrong.

gofastgo

How many of these immigrants have you taken in? Have you given over half of your income to them? Seen to it they are well taken care of? What have you done that is so ‘human’ and ‘just’?

aaroncarlson35

Zero taken in…
44% of my paycheck goes to supporting scum in some form or another!

GenePH

Cesar Chavez is probably turning over in his grave. He believed in the border of the United States – because that border protected his union. The NY Times ran a story detailing an accusation that the union Chavez founded, United Farm Workers, set up a 100 mile “wet line” to keep “w__backs” and “illegals” (Chavez’s words, not mine Post Denver) – out of the United States. Of course that was his special interest – whereas Obama’s special interest seems ruination of the United States as we know it.

aaroncarlson35

Too many GD Mexicans in this country period!

disqus_an29jYPkvn

And that, sir / madam, the just the sort of stupid statement that inflames & fuels anti-conservative feelings. If you can’t offer anything more intelligent than that, please refrain from posting at all.

aaroncarlson35

Yes Barry! To fact is there are too many GD Mexicans in this country! And every paycheck I see my hard earned wages being withheld for their benefit!

Why don;t you go move into a Mexican hood and see how that goes…then come back to me!

Larry De Cicco

Time for some reality and sustainability of this country economically and philosophically. To expect any group named “The Race”, which promotes its race above all else, to promote anything but pure racism is naïve. La Raza should have no more place at the table than the Recycled Black Panthers or the Aryan Nation.

Ben Cook

I am a Progressive Liberal Democrat, I care very much about the quality and standard of living of the American working-class and my Labor Union Brother and sisters, that said I have a monumental disagreement with my Democratic Party and have found some common ground with republicans: I am TOTALLY against illegal immigration and illegal immigrants! GO HOME, GET IN LINE AND WAIT YOUR TURN, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! GO HOME! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!

a420bowlkilla

But are you capable of recognizing that the current situation is unsustainable in the long term?
It is going to at least require some compromise when both sides are so far apart on the issue…or we will get nowhere.

aaroncarlson35

We already have laws which work. Enforce them. I have no interest in living next to or having likely criminal element in my day to day.

oldcap

Stereotype much?

blockmccloud

And the GOP still wonder why they are doing so terrible with women, latino, asian, black, and gay voters.

gofastgo

You CANNOT DEMAGOGUE every situation to please every group to garner votes, that’s why I am a Republican and conservative. The GOP does fine with the Asians and women that think for themselves, it’s only the nodders who believes the nonsense about the ‘war on women’. The ‘rule of law’ will out.

blockmccloud

Have you ever wondered maybe the people who vote against the GOP are thinking for themselves? Think bout that

gofastgo

They are thinking ‘OF’ themselves, not for themselves.

aaroncarlson35

Oh, so liverals vote against not for…I get it

aaroncarlson35

Exactly. The other day a women at work asked for me to move a heavy parcel for her. I told her that if I did so it would not be equal work for equal pay. And walked off. Glad I did, and will continue to do so.

Of course the woman could not budge the parcel, and waited for some other fool to help her. People need to be careful what they ask for and we were doing just fine before the indigents voted in their Liar!

HJD

And you’re still spewing the same old same old.

aaroncarlson35

It’s the liberal hate and jealously in broken record format

aaroncarlson35

Because we have values and we need not pander to every deviate in the population…that is what your party does. A free for all. A cesspool of losers aggregating together. Punishing the hard working and successful with exhorbitant taxes while your kind sits back and watches and collects welfare!

GO HOME!

a420bowlkilla

LoL, no they do not work. That’s obvious to most people.

aaroncarlson35

Exactly. Obama has directed the Fed to print $85B a month to the M1. At some point, stagflation will hammer the US. And Obama will blame Bush!

Is that what you meant? It’s not the same as ‘ordered to print money’…it’s more complicated than that.

a420bowlkilla

Oh, and your off topic.

aaroncarlson35

Blaming Bush is always off topic for Democraps!

a420bowlkilla

Meh,
But your the one that brought it up first in this conversation….

FocoRigido

“…I am a Progressive Liberal Democrat….and have found some common ground with republicans…”

Good. Have you found enough “common ground” that you’ll support Bob Beauprez and vote for him? If not, then your Epiphanic ‘common ground’ you claim to have found isn’t worth mentioning. Btw, “Progressive”, “Liberal”, and (D)emocrat” are synonymous, but redundancy aside, we get your point.

By way, It was the so called “Liberals” that invented the word “Progressive” because so called “Liberals” were ashamed of the “L word” and ran from the “L” word like the ScardyCrats today’s democrat party has become.

Gov Chickenstupid is not much different that a republican. I am so sick of the Democratic Party trying to hold hostage REAL Liberals by telling that we must vote for “them” because a “republican would be so much worse. Really? Democrats are the new republicans to quote Bill Maher.

You want the Liberal vote, than act like one, and being Liberal doesn’t mean throwing your working-class constituency under the bus to pander to trespassing law breakers.

Davis Johnson

Their love affair with illegals is simple. Modern Democrats have trouble with the founding of this country. They think it is unjust and unfair at its core. Like Obama has said they want to fundamentally transform this country.

The EASIEST way to do this is to overrun it with illegals and create a manufactured chaos that we have to respond too. Hence their preoccupation with illegals.

While you may not agree with many things in the Republican party, it is the only party today that represents the traditional American values that the founders enshrined in our Constitution.

It sounds like you agree with our basic principals. Like A strong border, strong defense.Therefore I ask that you put away some of your economic differencee and come and join us.

Because if we are flooded with illegals none of the values we hold dear will remain.

aaroncarlson35

Well, that is the first comment from a liberal I can agree. King Obama called for them — and now we’ve got them!

Anotha Texan

You are a Marxist and you helped elect a Marxist POTUS and put Marxist in every key cabinet post in the country including the SCOTUS.

Why should I listen to anything you say since you obviously cannot even be honest with yourself about what you are and what YOU have done to this country.

vermontgirl1

Pres O recognizes that capitalism can no longer sustain the
living standards of the population due to its need to compensate for falling profits by driving down wages, cutting social benefits and pursuing military aggression.

That does not automatically make him a marxist. Your labels manage only to gin up excitement, they are not reflective of reality.

Greed on one end and lack of personal responsibility on the other are ruining this country.

aaroncarlson35

Obama is greedy, or he would have shared his $20M with his poor, pathetic voters! And personal responsibility is the mantra for non-liberals. Liberals love welfare and are ‘owed’ something and have ficticious ‘rights’

vermontgirl1

Clearly you do not know any liberals.
And you are confusing the desire for everyone to have equal “opportunity” with equal “wealth”.
Liberals do not expect equal wealth…that’s just ridiculous.

gofastgo

Really? your president ran on the slogan, ‘we are going to redistribute the wealth’ he actually used the word ‘wealth’ then and now. What you want, no matter the level of education or sweat, is equal pay for all, that is Communism.

vermontgirl1

“I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government
systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution –
because I actually believe in some redistribution, at least at a certain
level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot.” – Barack Obama 1998

He was referring to our government…not the wealth of private citizens. And he never mentioned equal pay for all no matter what.

PS. Obama may be a Democrat…be he is hardly a liberal. There IS a difference.

gofastgo

“The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that
pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution —
because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain
level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot.”

‘everybody’ that’s not our government, that’s the folks.

And this to you sounds like he’s talking about business? How do you align your beliefs with his raising the wages on any new government contracts to double what they are now?

No lady, he’s talking about at minimum Socialism, or if he had his way, Communism. He had two muslim fathers and a muslim mother and said he wasn’t influenced by either spiritually, really? Saul Alinsky handbook is his guide to what he wants for America, break down the system, overcrowd and overuse until it breaks, then you can control all the people with healthcare.

vermontgirl1

“government systems” is quite specific.

You inserted “wealth”…he did not. You put words in his mouth, essentially, and then rant about what you think is in his head. You want to believe the man is sinister – you are dead wrong on this.

Then, may I ask, (although the ‘wealth’ was inserted by the writer of the story I pulled up, not myself) ‘redistribute WHAT, if not wealth’? Land? Power? or airplanes? Redistribute ‘government systems’? What in the world does that even mean? Isn’t government large enough for you yet? Do you endeavor for even more control by government? Try to make a bit of sense when commenting.

vermontgirl1

I believe his comment means the government should work equally for everyone, no matter your level of wealth.
Right now…it works really well for the wealthy. They get to influence everything from tax code to govt contract with their money.

Individuals will never get the same importance as corporations, more time has to be spent taxing the corporations, the individual is taxed via tables. Could you explain how the government (and how large it would have to become) could treat each and every person (notice, I didn’t say American) with individual importance and care? Saying it will never make it so, it would be an impossible task.

As far as ‘everyone gets a shot’, how about ‘affirmative action’ ‘the black caucus’ ‘minority business owners having to have a certain percentage of ALL federal and state work contracts’ ‘extra credit for your skin color on college entrance exams’ Are these examples of what you’re talking about? You and he want more? Listen, if they are not ‘hand-outs’ then what would you call them? We house, feed and cloth many minorities, and they are still not culpable for bad behaviors, in fact, many take advantage of these programs with more bad behavior and dependence on government (read, taxpayers) to afford them a living without changing one thing in their lives for the better.

vermontgirl1

So if you’re not wealthy….you’re automatically a minority…and a “taker”? WOW

gofastgo

Hardly, but we do have ‘generational welfare’ families, you’re aware of those, correct? Sarcasm will get you nearly nothing with me. I’m not wealthy myself, but have enough to not do without, I worked hard for many years to achieve what I’ve accomplished and garnered.

vermontgirl1

No sarcasm intended….every program you noted is related to minorities.

If you’ll look back you’ll see that I stated “lack of personal responsibility” (and greed) are ruining this country. But here’s the thing….as with any structure….if the bottom is strong the rest of the structure does well. That does not in any way mean we should prop up the bottom indefinitely…they have to put for the effort.

gofastgo

No, it’s more like Socialism that he embraces, ala Alinsky.

Davis Johnson

I am sorry but there are no true alternatives to Capitalism. It is the fairest of all systems. It’s not perfect but it produces the best living standards for most people .

All other experiments have failed. Your search for a perfect economic system will lead you to Marxism but the end result of that is shared misery for all.

The fact that Obama does not recognize this shows you how intellectually vapid he really is.

CAPITALISM must be embraced and taught in all our schools if America is going to survive.

And don’t confuse what I said with the CRONY CAPITALISM that Obama and many Republicans practice. That is a recipe for failure as well.

vermontgirl1

Impossible for true capitalism to exist, has been since the industrial revolution.
“Mixed economies” are needed to keep capitalists in check.

Big money breeds crony capitalism and that, my friend, is rampant on every side of the aisle.
We the people can fix this…..with elections. But even that won’t happen until we take $$$ out of elections.

gofastgo

And term limits, although some will disagree.

vermontgirl1

Good point – fresh people with fresh ideas. I like that.

As well, with such a short term, Congress spends more time collecting $$ for their next election than they do actually legislating. I’ve seen suggestions about the public financing of elections.

Course, fox and hen house….right?

gofastgo

We would probably agree on many issues, it’s the starting point that has managed to become elusive.

vermontgirl1

Indeed.
SO MANY folks (legislators are just about the worst) drop a few hot bombs and run…failing to stick around…discuss…find a way to agreement.

John H

That is pretty much what the indians said 500 years ago. Funny how this all works.

Steven Alvarado

No, the Indians said: “Hey!, these guys got some neat stuff that I can use to kill my fellow Indians. Let’s go talk to them”.

Jan Brewer wanted to enforce existing laws, if that means more people in prison or jail, you have your answer. Traffic tickets are not the answer, as with the fiasco on the Southern border with the Central Americans now, they get a court date and don’t bother to show up, increasing the number of illegals in the country at this point to even more, and still more come, and why not.

John Steel

Just as Attorney General Holder demonstrated yesterday the manner in which liberal Democrats translate any opposition to the policies of the Obama Administration as racism, many “Latino Leaders” try to brand anyone concerned about the invasion of this nation from our Southern border as a racist. I am glad to see many Hispanic politicians distancing themselves from these despicable shenanigans. Who needs to be worried are Democrats such as Mark Udall and Gov. Hickenlooper who would turn Colorado into Mexico Norte. The vast majority of AMERICANS are fed up – even the tone deaf Barack is catching on to that fact. Deport and Impeach!

AnneOHayes

Google is <– paying 80$ per hour! Work for few hours and have more time with friends & family! On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $4151 this last four weeks. Its the most-financialy rewardingI've had. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it

I see you have earned your Talk Radio merit badge for the day . No one is going to line up he busses and haul off illegal at gun point. And the Radio guys, like Boyles, know that. But you can certainly keep the fires burning and the lines lit up if you can keep the controversy growing and not ever let it get resolved.

gofastgo

It’s been resolved by the laws of our land.

Michael O

Ho about stop letting them in???!!!! How about turning them around rather than giving them money and sending them on their way to appear at a hearing they never appear at?
Wink, wink, nod, nod, is not an immigration policy. A sound immigration policy does not mean let in anyone that wants to.
we have a high unemployment rate as it is, why on earth do we want more unskilled laborers looking for work? We’re looking for work!!!
His “talk show merit badge mentality” is resonating to a far greater number of people than the open borders crowd.
A pathway for citizenship for those that have been here for a while is one thing, letting in waves of thousands of people with no real intent to enforce our immigration laws or secure the border is where more and more people are parting company.
So you keep believing its just the talk radio crowd – In fact PLEASE keep thinking that.

aaroncarlson35

Come election time death to liberals!

vermontgirl1

Hate gets you NO WHERE.
You need to tone it down, use reason not emotion.

blockmccloud

He is the perfect example why so many will vote against the GOP.

gofastgo

At some point you all will realize that America can’t afford to take in any more dependent people and their families. We can’t afford to house them, we can’t afford to clothe them, we can’t afford to make them healthy, we can’t afford to educate them in dual-language classes, holding back our own home-grown kids, we can’t afford build more section 8 housing. We are over $17.5 TRILLION in debt, the Fed continues to print money to stimulate the stock market and buy MBS’s (mortgage backed securities) which many are still full of bad loans and are toxic, that’s why we are buying our own debt, this was initiated to get retiree’s pension funds back to full value, that has been done, but they continue on the path to devalue the dollar. In the end, we must enforce our borders, secure them 100%, before that I believe no money should be given for the housing and clothing and food for those who chose to break into our country, knowing America is kind hearted and will care for them.

U.S. Citizen

The man just earned my vote.

blockmccloud

too bad it won’t do any good. Beauprez loses by double digits in November.

gofastgo

I think all of you ‘nodders’ will be very surprised in many states this
Fall, and those double digits you’re talking about may well be for the other guy, not your guy.

blockmccloud

Did you see the new poll out today?

Udall is beating Gardner with women voters by 12 points. Udall is
beating Gardner with latino voters by 31 points, and Udall is beating
Gardner with independent voters by 16 points.

“Hugo Chavez-Rey, chairman of the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, also defended Beauprez’s radio comments.

“I, and many other Latinos, find it insulting to suggest that common-sense approaches to immigration, calling for federal officials to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, and placing a priority on our nation’s security somehow translates into being ‘anti-Hispanic,’ he stated. “Colorado’s Hispanic community has a great deal of respect for the law, and many of us are just as frustrated as anyone by the tragic lack of federal and state leadership.”

Perhaps the editor of the DP could get a job as spokesperson for the DNC, because he certainly doesn’t speak for the people of Colorado!!

ChristineRBittner

Google is paying 80$ per <—hour! Work for few hours and have more time with -friends & family! On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $4151 this last four weeks. Its the most-financialy rewardingI've had. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it

And this is the representative of the parrty which says it wants to “reach out” to minorities.
Nice try, Bob; you just lost yourself an election – and you will drag down the rest of your party with you.
There aren’t enough grumpy old white guys around for them to elect a dogcatcher in a one-cat town.

kdhardy

Whose country is America, those who want laws followed, or those who want boarders opened?

On one hand the Democrats are telling Republican they can’t win if the don’t do immigration. On the other hand a new polled shows immigration isn’t the issue the Democrats thought is was going into this years election. And still on the other hand, Obama has blown it with his wave of refugee children crossing the boarder, it’s what amnesty looks like.

We the voter will determine the country we live in.

oldcap

How quickly some forget that this country was founded by radicals who defied and broke the law.
You would think the Boston Tea Party never happened.
You would think the Declaration of Independence never had been written.
You would think that Rosa Parks moved quickly and quietly to the back of the bus.

gofastgo

Oh stop oldman. Illegal immigration has nothing to do with civil rights in this country. The Boston event was brought about by overtaxation by the British, we didn’t invade their land, we immigrated here to America, as legally as possibly back then. The revolution was again a struggle for freedom from oppression, civil liberties.

You’re trying to compare illegal border crossing with the fight for freedom by our founders, this is so wrong it makes no sense and makes you look and sound ignorant.

oldcap

When the Democrats start running ads quoting Both Ways Bob, the rabid right will holler “SMEAR!”

gofastgo

And when your guv pardons another mass murderer, what will you say? Oh, and lets not forget the magazine controversy shall we.

Doug Hubka

Might want to check your memory, the Gov did not pardon anyone.

gofastgo

You might want to check yours partner, he gave a ‘stay of execution’ to Nathan Dunlap, you can call it anything you want, ‘a temporary pardon’? Whatever you choose, he could not allow himself to take sides against his ‘people’ on the issue of the death penalty. He’s a schmuck. Split all the hairs you must, Dunlap, after nearly 20 years of very expensive appeals, all on the taxpayer dollar, finally exhausted all the ‘he had a bad childhood’ defenses and was sentenced to die by a jury of his peers and upheld by all the courts of appeals, YOUR governor could not just allow the law to work, and had to intercede on this piece of trash’s behalf, and the behalf of his voting base, you’re one of them sport.

Colorado Latino leaders are run by liberal (Socialist) D.C. group? Yeah, that makes sense….just like the Hick!

Claude Long

Racism. That’s what this is and thinly veiled. As Bob Dylan once said:
The poor white man’s
used in the hands
of them all like a tool.
he’s taught that the laws are with him
to protect his white skin
so he never thinks straight
bout the shape that he’s in.
I can’t blame anyone for wanting to come here and do the jobs the white man doesn’t want to do anymore. Solving the immigration problem is easy though. All they have to do is go to the jobsites, hotels, restaurants, roadways, feedlots, etc. and go after the people who are hiring them. Why do you think they don’t do that? Because then all the rich folks that are hiring them will have to pay a decent wage to get workers. And those are the same rich people who are hiring the politicians. Boprop won’t change any of that. It’s all just racist rhetoric aimed at riling folks up.

gofastgo

Been on a construction site at any time in the last 20 years or so Claude? The old saw about ‘picking crops’ and ‘cleaning bathrooms’ is long past prevalent.

Somebody

i would like a Governor who actually would enforce the existing laws as they are sworn to when they take office.

SkyCapn

Time to annex Meh-Hee-Coh.

Anotha Texan

More Progressive Marxist logic.
Annex Mexico and create a giant welfare nation of dependents will vote Marxist for life and ensure the end of the republic of the US and gringos.

We know who the real racist are and they are not white.

SkyCapn

We already have that, it’s called CALIFORNIA.

gofastgo

Mexifornia.

garmet

It seems this Administration’s intent is to over-run this country with illegals, including gangs and drug cartels, making the border porous for mid eastern terrorists and whoever else, to destroy the country’s strength and prosperity that has allowed it to be so generous and protective of other countries. Prejudice against, and envy of this great country, that our ancestors built, is racist; revealed in all of Obama’s apologies for it.

oldcap

Better yet.
How about building that 50′ fence on the northern border of Arizona and Tejas.

blockmccloud

Both ways Bob is out of touch with Colorado voters and especially Colorado latino voters. Both ways Bob will learn the hard way in November. You don’t win statewide in a blue state by insulting many latinos that live in your state. Beauprez loses by double digits.

mayorquimby9

How did he insult the latinos that live in his state?

gofastgo

He told the truth about them.

gofastgo

If you find reason to find the current gov a good man, so be it, I do not. I find him to be a panderer of the worst degree, a back-slapping, ‘I love everyone and believe even mass murderer’s deserve even more justice’ You can have him, and his idiot think.

http://batman-news.com less free

The only latinos he might have insulted are the illegals. You are brainwashed beyond repair.

blockmccloud

The GOP are. Why is Udall destroying Gardner with latino voters by double digits? Is it maybe because Gardner opposes immigration reform. Latinos who are here legally do not support the GOP and their extreme views on immigration reform.

Heinz Doofenshmirtz

A governor who will enforce laws…Imagine that!

gofastgo

Good for Bob! Common sense at work, laws enforced, our freedoms re-introduced. Hoorah for Beauprez, I’ll vote for him without doubt.

Doug Hubka

Didn’t this story say something about he laws that Arizona pushed through were declared Unconstitutional ? I don’t think that is the kind of Governor I would want.

gofastgo

If you don’t enforce existing federal laws, you must implement your own. Arizona wanted to see ID from those folks stopped for other violations, and of course the ACLU rushed into action on their behalf. These people are using our laws against us, what don’t you understand about that? If a guy walks out of a bank with a mask and a gun along with a bank bag and there has been a report of a robbery, do you stop him, or go inside and ask what he looks like, what was he wearing, and after 30 minutes or so realize he must have been the guy you saw leaving the bank you held the door open for.

mayorquimby9

Only a few, small parts of it was deemed unconstitutional.

blockmccloud

New poll released today shows very bad news for Colorado republicans. ;)

Udall is beating Gardner with women voters by 12 points. Udall is beating Gardner with latino voters by 31 points, and Udall is beating Gardner with independent voters by 16 points.

Then in your world, no reason to vote, how about staying home and just watching the news for the results.

http://batman-news.com less free

How many times are you going to post this?

blockmccloud

Post what, the facts?

IndyThought

And very few Democrats will come out to vote in November.
-yawn.

Billy Sastard

How dare someone say that laws on the books be enforced..there is no need for so called comprehensive reform…just enforce the laws as written.

blockmccloud

What about the millions of people already here illegally? The GOP doesn’t want to do anything about immigration reform. They can kiss the latino vote which they desperately need in 2016 goodbye.

mayorquimby9

You mean since they don’t pander to voter groups by doing something that is clearly illegal. How dare they!!

http://batman-news.com less free

You are wrong. Do you make this stuff up all by yourself? Gop wants immifgration reform and it starts with securing the border. Anyone with half a brain knows that there can not be reform with an open border.
Your king tried telling us the border is more secure than ever. We now are shown proof that he lied again.
All you do is blurt out nonsense but can’t ever respond but try showing you have half a brain and tell me whats wrong with securing the border before proceeding with reform.

aaroncarlson35

Jesus what the hell is this country becoming! Bastard Mexican and black babies all over the place. They are all uneducated despite free high school education. No personal responsibility. So they turn to the lactating teats of Uncle Barry!

aaroncarlson35

Kick the bastards out! When the US crumbles due to its debt load are the Mexicans going to bail us out?

Don Carlon

Keep up those talking points Bob , right up to the election and help Hickenlooper win by a landslide again , thanks !

gofastgo

Or he could join the demagogues and tell them whatever they want to hear eh Don?

blockmccloud

The GOP are the gift that keeps on giving. They are prone to saying things that offend many voters.

gofastgo

Yes, in some cases, the truth hurts. ‘you can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool ALL of the people ALL of the time’

blockmccloud

truth is not the same thing as ignorance.

gofastgo

Okay, I’ll agree, you’re ignorant.

Harpro208

Keep talking Bob. We Democrats appreciate what you’re doing and I’ll go ahead and thank you in advance for ensuring Democrats retain the governorship..

aaroncarlson35

Didn’t the real CO governor resign to pursue other opportunities? I think that is what she said!

gofastgo

Perhaps he’ll close all the prisons if he gets chance, after all, only one person isn’t nearly enough to satiate the desire of the ‘anything goes’ crowd.

Dano2

Please proceed, Bob.

Best,

D

AgendaBuster

Bob’s never met a illegal he didn’t like. After telling Tancredo he wouldn’t run, Tom Tancredo and his followers invested time and money into the primary. At that point the National Chamber of Commerce talked Beauprez into stabbing Tancredo in the back.
As usual Both Ways Bob went BOTH-WAYS, he entered the race. I don’t trust this man, he speak with a forked tongue.

Brian

Title of the article should say “draws fire from Colorado’s left-leaning Latino voters who’ve been bought off by Democrats the last 8 years.”

What a joke of an article if you want to even call it that. I guess the other folks mentioned aren’t Latino leaders to the author. I guess if they don’t tow the party line then they can’t speak for anyone.

aaroncarlson35

Democrats hate Mexicans, except for one day every four years. And Mexicans are dumb enough to beleive them

Brian

They believe it because of articles like this and how they are incorrectly titled.

aaroncarlson35

Would one expect any more than liberal drivel from the DP?

oldcap

If that is truly your opinion of the DP, why do you still read it?

Brian

Even Soviet citizens read Pravda even though they knew it was crap. Their options were limited just as ours are for local news.

Plus everyone can use a good laugh at the amateurish attempt at journalism that is the DP. A non-English speaking illegal immigrant often has better command of the English language than the editors of the DP do.

gofastgo

I’ve tried to get other Colorado news publications, online and otherwise, they update their ‘news’ about once a week, save for a few articles. I don’t read the op-eds, or the opinion of the DPEB. I used to admire Vincent, but with the deck stacked against him, everyone else there is hard line liberal left, it rubs off on him.

oldcap

Really now. The hard right wing DP publishes Rosen, Will, Krauthammer, and Andrews, and you call it liberal! HAHAHA!!!!

gofastgo

Yes, perhaps once a week or month, and for the very reasons you laugh at now, ‘we always have opinions from both sides of politcal parties’ if ever questioned by someone. You’re too far gone to realize that the Denver Post is a ‘lefty’ rag, you’re hopeless.

Steven Alvarado

I am Latino and I want these refugees to be treated with respect and dignity and to be returned to their home countries ASAP. The laws are in place: enforce them.

mayorquimby9

Beautifully stated…. agreed.

fred flinstone

Fuck a wetback; any flavor damnit.

aaroncarlson35

Why respect???????? and dignity? They have no passport. They have no business coming to the US. They are all low end scum. Salivating at the lactating teats of Barry!

mayorquimby9

No, the left wants the illegals here for votes while the business groups want them for cheap labor. The GOP wants to enforce the law.

aaroncarlson35

95% are criminal felons. What is Mexico going to do just hand over their criminal records?

The first deportation should be Obama! Back to Indonesia, where he was born!

IndyThought

Slowly but surely even Democrats are rejecting the false accusations of racism constantly smeared on those who oppose continued cycles of amnesty and illegal immigration.
Shame on these Hispanic Race Baiters.

oldcap

Oppose the arrival of the Latino children if you wish; just do not call yourself a Catholic.

Ariana Huffington is a hard-left liberal woman, enough said about your article. American has taken in the downtrodden and homeless, we have run out of money to do these things. In the past, in the early stages of America’s inception, ALL that came here wanted to be American, they came here to escape Communism and oppression, that is no longer the case, they now come here to take advantage of our freedoms and give nothing in return.

aaroncarlson35

You mean Mexican bastard cockroach breeders? Most have left the Catholic church. Research before you speak. Mexicans came for the handouts!

GO HOME Mexicans — you parasites are not wanted here! Make your own country great and stay out of ours!

oldcap

Gee, one wonders about YOUR family’s history and what the so-called “real Americans” said about YOUR ancestors polluting the nation.
How abut YOU go back to where they came from.

fred flinstone

Stop the pilgrim shit; punk spicass. Whites created a “Country”.

oldcap

But of course we live in a post-racial world.
Just ask Chief Justice Roberts.
BTW, the dry cleaner called; your robe is ready to be picked up.

fred flinstone

Hi

fred flinstone

They are cencoring me so; you get it “friend”.

fred flinstone

35 love it.

Dave Francis

PRESIDENT OBAMAS PANDERING TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES..?

When the people fear their
government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is
liberty. Thomas Jefferson once said.

Are you anxious about America’s future about unfettered
illegal immigration?

If you are, then we all have a job to do—and our nation can’t move forward
without your support. America needs your help: Do we
have it?

If amnesty happens, we’ll have failed this nation, our children, and
grandchildren.

You know, it’s not so much a great deal what we know Obama is trying to do—but
about the clandestine deals to make it happen. That’s why this
country desperately needs your support.

Without
it, our freedoms are under attack in Obama’s Washington. To prevent these
shady deals from coming down, we must respond with ONE VOICE.

“King Obama” is back on courting amnesty with reprisals–decreeing it
will boost the economy and shrink the incredulous near 18 Trillion deficits. It’s
another lie, just like Obamacare, Benghazi, the IRS and the VA
scandal? If he pushes further 20 million plus illegal aliens will steal our
jobs, drive down wages and devastate the U.S. economy with their
demand for government free public benefits. And, because it’s all free they’ll
vote Democrats into office for the next several decades. Apart from the illegal
migrants the virus that lives amongst us; people who are allergic to work, will
join the Liberal Progressives subsidies free-for-all, drowning Taxpayers
further in even more debt. We saw this with great clarity when illegal aliens
were voting in the presidential general election.

Foreign Nationals are taking to the streets, demanding “No more
deportations!” fed by the open border advocates. Then Obama’s response was?
“If I could bypass Congress then I would.”

Tea Party candidates both know it’s a matter of time before he does. It the Tea
Party lawmakers within the Republican establishment, that is stopping him. They
are what are stopping him so we need to keep the pressure on but…

Our stern fight over
Obama’s scandals remains unaccountable. No one ever said
it would be easy but it will be worth it. So please if you are a loyal
American patriot. The mega-businesses are turning up the heat in favor of
amnesty—no doubt a backroom deal for cheap labor. On the other the Leftists and
ethnic groups as La Raza (the race) have their own ideology; of returning the
part of America President Polk paid Mexico $15 million in gold,
to relinquish their hold on Texas, California and New Mexico to a mythical Azatlan.
This would only happen over the dead body of Americans, so under Obama and his
drones and not enforcing the border, millions are still slipping through, a
non-existent fence separating US
jurisdiction from Mexico But as Senator
Jeff Sessions of Alabama said:

“America is not an oligarchy… a Republic must answer to the people.”

Another amnesty for illegal aliens has been Obama’s “modus
operandi” all along. He plans to immediately register those who receive
amnesty as voters…remove caps from H-1B visas for skilled workers …make it
illegal to apprehend “undocumented” persons… as his pointed
directive to the Border Patrol. He will fund neighborhood and education centers
for illegal aliens and much more.

Time is running out.
Anything you can do as emailing, texting, writing letters to your Senators or
State Representatives will be urgently welcome. What would cause a massive
outcry is for ALL Americans, to join huge demonstrations—let the Republicans
and Lib-Democrats show we mean business. With signs proclaiming stop treading
on the Rule of Law and the US Constitution. There are deadlines to meet and we
need you to help us STOP AMNESTY! Congress should without delay revamp
the 2008 child Trafficking laws, not offer any special privileges to Central
Americans.

Remember other
countries citizens is not our problem? We have our own poverty and economic issues,
which need our time. We have our own HUMANITARIAN TROUBLES, which should be our
own priority? We should not be funding more money for illegal people, until the
border has the National Guard or able bodied troops coming home from the Middle East, to deploy at the
borders that would show we need business?

IF THIS ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT
POST THE NATIONAL GUARD ON THE BORDER, SHOULDN’T THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CALL OUT
THE MINUTEMAN AND STATE MILITIAS TO CONTROL THE BORDER? FURTHER, CUT OFF ALL
FUNDING TO THE CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND EMBARGO THE REAL ENEMY—MEXICO. They can stop this simply by giving priority to this Exodus, into our
country? Alas, most of the Mexican authorities take bribes, so little will
occur without strong politicians demanding they stop this invasion.

Blocking amnesty for illegals is up to
us—grassroots America—the little people. We
need you. This site has the Numbers and Mailing Addresses of Members of Congress at http://www.contactingthecongress/
to demand an end to illegal immigration. You can also get alternative news
about issues at One-America-News and TeaParty.org

The
National TEA PARTY STATES NO IMMIGRATION REFORM, WITHOUT SEALING THE BORDER. NO
IMMIGRATION REFORM. NO PATH TO CITIZENSHIP.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.